This area is just a bunch of different things thrown together. They are all based mainly on anti-war, anti-violence, peace, and similar subject. Im adding pictures, drawings, slogans, facts, and anything else i can dig up to educate. So check it out alot, it gets updated daily.
facts and quotes that are from some other source is noted other wise, anything unnoted that has similarities may be purely coinsidence or i forgot to note it
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Mankinds desire for peace can be realized by the creation of a world government - Einstein
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man - Bertrand Russell
There can be no inward peace without true knowledge- Gandhi
Two hundred billions Vietnam costs
Seventy thousands lives we know
And still no win, hardly a draw
Inflation, world millions hating us!
Do we approach sensibility?
Do we approach civilization?
About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty years ago. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five.
Today 10% of children in developing countries die before the age of five. This is down from 28% fifty years ago.
Famine and wars cause just 10% of hunger deaths, although these tend to be the ones you hear about most often. The majority of hunger deaths are caused by chronic malnutrition. Families simply cannot get enough to eat. This in turn is caused by extreme poverty.
Besides death, chronic malnutrition also causes impaired vision, listlessness, stunted growth, and greatly increased susceptibility to disease. Severely malnourished people are unable to function at even a basic level.
It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
Often it takes just a few simple resources for impoverished people to be able to grow enough food to become self-sufficient. These resources include quality seeds, appropriate tools, and access to water. Small improvements in farming techniques and food storage methods are also helpful.
Many hunger experts believe that ultimately the best way to reduce hunger is through education. Educated people are best able to break out of the cycle of poverty that causes hunger.
Sources (by paragraph):
1. The Hunger Project, United Nations
2. CARE
3. The Institute for Food and Development Policy
4. United Nations World Food Program (WFP)
5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
6. Oxfam
7. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
ONE YEAR IN THE LIFE OF AMERICAN CHILDREN
2,243 children and youths under 20 commit suicide
4,941 children and youths under 20 are killed by firearms
112,230 children under 18 are arrested for violent crimes
531,591 babies are born to teen mothers
613,514 students are corporally punished in public schools
1,200,000 latchkey children come home to a house where there is a gun
1,977,862 students are suspended from public schools
2,695,010 children are reported abused or neglected
Meanwhile..between 1995 and 1999 the Defense Department will spend $150 billion on nuclear weapons alone. That money could fund:
* 4.4 million low-income college students
* 2 million summer jobs for youth annually
* Head Start for 1.4 million kids
* Tutoring for 9.8 million students
* Treatment for 30,000 drug addicts in one year
* Infant care for 2 million families..
* and much, much more
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